to Atlas Transfer Printers
Our transfer papers provide an extremely cost effective branding, colouring and decoration solution for a wide range of synthetic narrow width products such as packaging ribbons, underwear elastics, clothing tapes, security barriers, military and industrial webbings, lanyards and sports trimmings.
With our expansion into bigger premises, and investment in more equipment, we are able to provide an even more cost effective, high speed turnaround of our transfer papers. We also provide custom heat transfer printing onto fabrics should this service be required.
Atlas Transfer Printers Ltd was founded in 1994 and is based in Leicester, the UK central hub of printing and textiles. Over the years, Atlas has invested in state of the art equipment to reinforce our position as the quality market leader in sublimation transfer papers and narrow fabric heat transfer printing. We have staff that have spent their whole working lives in the dye sublimation industry and are experts in their field.
Together with high volume production we also carry out prototyping short run and design/product development for companies and we are accustomed to working with national and international brands under non-disclosure agreements.
We currently work with narrow fabric manufacturers around the world and our products are used by many notable companies including: Reebok, Puma, Quiksilver, Victoria Secret, Hummel, Walt Disney, Warner Bros, Adidas, Nike, Hello Kitty and many more!
Atlas produce +/- 500,000 metres of transfer print paper per month and commission print +/- 100,000 metres of fabric per month in varying widths. A small but growing percentage of this is digitally produced.
As the transfer paper market has matured and new technologies have arrived there remains a lot of mis-information about transfer paper production. The most notable is the difference in volume and price between traditional ‘flexo’ papers and the newer digital papers.
Excluding capital costs and overheads, digital paper production has an almost flat line production cost due to the time it takes to produce the paper and the cost of materials. In comparison, our traditional flexographic paper costs reduce significantly with volume which makes it cost effective for us to supply large quantities of printed paper around the world.
Our specialist paper production is incorporated in many areas of domestic, industrial and promotional textile use and we work with a mixture of narrow fabric manufactures and end users. Our transfer paper and in house fabric printing is used for fashion and sportswear tapes, elastics and labels, promotional products, corporate branding, queueing systems and camouflage straps for the military.
Perfect long-lasting products for extreme conditions
Our printing process achieves the most durable, hard wearing print possible. Our transfer papers when applied onto a polyester webbing give the highest light/wash/rub fastness levels, giving a perfect product for the extreme conditions for a theatre of combat. We have many camouflage designs that can be colour matched to a customer’s specification. If you have a new design that is not in our camouflage range we have no problem in creating this for you.
High end products for high end consumers.
Our print process can be, and is, used in many other applications. If you require something that has not been shown on this site, or you have any questions regarding what we do. please contact us, as we are sure we can help you.
We commission print transfer papers onto our customer’s fabrics using batch to batch colour records…
